Improved means of attaching handles to dippees



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Letters Patent No. 73,066, dated January 7, 1868.

'IMPROVED MEANS OP ATTAIGHING HANDLES TO DIPPERS.

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TO'VALL WHOM IT MAY OONCERN:

l13e it known that I, JOHN B. WOOD, of Cranston, in the county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island,

Vhave invented anew' and useful Improvement in the Handles of Cocoa-Nut-Dippersfor dipping anddrinking.-

purposes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the sume, reference being had to the annexed drawing, making part of this specication, in which Figure 1 is 'a view of the dipper and the improved handle.- Figure 2 is a longitudinal view of the handle detached. v .Figure 3 is a front view of theend or portion lot' the handle tO which the said improvement is applied. Similar letters indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures. T hedipper-shell A is that of a cocoa-nut, turned smoothly inside and out. The handle of the dipper cou sists of a metal socket-piece, B, secured to the clipper-shell, and a turned stick, D, one endiof which is inserted v and pinned in the socket-piece B.

This kind of-dipper is generally used in a bucket of. `water for dipping and drinking therefrom;A and from being thus used, it'is common for the dipper und the adjoining portionof the handle to bealmost continually immersed or wet with being frequently plunged into the water. Owing to this circumstance the stick Dbecomes soaked, which causes it to swell, and the socket-piece, which is generally made of Britannia, is in consequence stretched to such a degree that, in many cases, it issplitor burst open by the expansive force of the moistened wood, and the clipper thereby rendered entirely useless; and it is the object of my present invention to remedy this diiliculty. i Y Y My invention consists in slitting or otherwise removing the material from thev end of the stick or handle, which is held in the socket-piece, in such a manner as will permit the same to yield in a direction radially'to the axis of the stick or socket, so thatthe stick, on being wetted after it is placed in the socket-piece, will expand from the circumference towards the centre, instead of from the centre towards the circumference, in thel usual way, whereby this portion of the stick is prevented from swelling, and does not therefore ex pand and burst the socket-piece, and produce the diiliculty above mentioned.

'A .Inl the drawing, m, g. 2, represents the end of the stick, which is held in the socket D. It is turned "tapering, and afterwards properly slitted, to remedy the diiiculty above mentioned, by cutting tw'o soir-scorie at right angles to each other, or nearly so, as shown iniig. 3, a suicient portion of the material beingthus remo-ved from the centre of the stick, and radially thereto, to permit theiv'ood to yield withoutexpanding the metal socket, which socket'is best'made of Britannia, because it will not rust nor corrode. I

The material in the stick may also be removed ctfectually in other ways than by slitting, as above specified, namely, by boring one ormore holes in or about the centre of the stick, or by cutting a number of groovesin the tapering-portion of the stick, or by boringout the interior of the stick, so as to form a tube or hollow end,

I arid-cutting oneor more slits in the side of this tube. But as neither ofthese ways constitutes anything more than a merely form-al ychange in the way ofrenioving a portion of the material to produce a yielding effect in this portion of the stick, these, and all other Ways of simply removing the material for this purpose, are regarded as modiiicntions of the same invention. l

' What I claim as my inventiom'and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

slitting orotherwise removing a por'tion of the Vmatezinlof the stick or handle which is held Ain the metal socket-piece, when combined with the metal socket, substantially as and for the purpose described. I

' l JOHN B. WOOD.

Witnesses:

IsAAc A. BROWNELL, NonMAN M. MASON; 

